I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Rutger Hauer is absolutely brilliant in Blade Runner.

The kids and I watched Blade Runner: The Final Cut on 4K UHD Blu-ray tonight for Family Movie Night. Both kids liked it to varying degrees. My daughter said the movie was too dark, but liked it and rated it 7 out of 10. My son said he didn't fully grasp all that was happening, but loved the production design, visuals and aesthetics. He rated it 6 out of 10. Both kids picked up on the theme of what it means to be human and the value of human life.

Blade Runner has always been a 10 out of 10 for me. The first time I saw this movie was in high school at a local theater in '92, it was the The Director's Cut of the film. Later, I watched the American theatrical release of the film and was not impressed.

The 4K UHD Blu-ray transfer is amazing and I am so glad that I have the disc. Streaming cannot compare to 4K UHD Blu-ray (or even regular Blu-ray).

#movies #BladeRunner #BladeRunnerTheFinalCut

snac2 + phanpy is an awesome combination! #phanpy works perfectly with #snac2 and phanpy can even be used as a PWA on iOS. Nice!

If you want to give phanpy a try, I run an instance of it here.

#fediverse #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting

Kierkegaard: Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

While watching the #movie Project Hail Mary, I have upgraded we're dreaming to #snac to v2.93. Easy upgrade like usual! Amaze, amaze, amaze!

I am in South San Jose and I got woken up by a MyShake and a general iOS alert about an M6 (at the time) earthquake in Redwood Valley, CA… 165 miles away.

I hope everyone near the epicenter of the earthquake is okay, I didn’t feel a thing. I’m wondering if alert distance thresholds should be adjusted. I’m quite far from the epicenter and I’m not sure an alert was necessary for me.

#earthquake #california #sanjose #sfba

The kids and I watched Everything Everywhere All at Once tonight. They were both super wowed by the movie and rated it 10 out of 10 (my rating is also 10 out of 10).

Everything Everywhere All at Once is an action, sci-fi and family drama film and it is one of the best movies I have seen in years. Visually stunning, all original and a perfectly balanced movie that straddles so many genres. Everything Everywhere All at Once had me laughing and crying. It is exceedingly funny, yet heartbreaking and touching. I highly recommended Everything Everywhere All at Once.

This movie is a masterpiece.

The Googly Eye is the inverse of the Everything Bagel.

My longer review of the film can be found here:
https://ultramookie.com/movies/everything-everywhere-all-at-once/

#movies #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #scifi #action #drama #family

After having Taco Bell with my son, we walked back to the car and I found this on the floor next to my car.

#spongebob #taco #tacos #tacobell

Disclosure Day was entertaining, but it isn't one of Steven Spielberg's best. Disclosure Day tackles the same themes as Robert Zemeckis' 1997 film Contact, but wraps the themes in action sequences. The main cast are all great -- Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor do great, Eve Hewson is fine and Colin Firth is fantastic.

The script by David Koepp starts the audience mid-action and for a while treats the audinece as intelligent and does a lot to show instead of tell. But, as the movie progresses, there is a lot more telling and not showing -- which is unfortuante. The script aimed for the events of the movie to be profound, but it never reached that level.

Janusz Kamiński's cinematography was beautifully naturalistic and that worked well for the mulitple oners that were done in the movie -- including a four-minute oner with Emily Blunt that was very well executed.

John Williams' score works for the film while it was running, but it was a bit forgettable without any themes that I can remember after the credits rolled.

There are a few nits that I have about the film, the biggest being the ultimate lack of impact of a bag full of data.

Disclosure Day is worth a watch, but there are better movies tackling these themes. A better film dealing with aliens and religion is Contact. A better Spielberg film dealing with aliens is Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Rated 7 out of 10.

#movies #DisclosureDay #SciFi

Lately I have been moving my workflows away from Microsoft Office and onto LibreOffice. For a while, I couldn't figure out how to manage images in a Writer document like I did in Word, but finally figured it out.

I did a quick write up of what I experienced and how I was able to setup Writer to work like Word -- and keep my workflow the same. It was an easy change.

https://ultramookie.com/2026/06/libreoffice-writer-images/

cc: @LibreOffice

#software #libreoffice #microsoft #office #office365 #howto

It's been four months since I brought up We're Dreaming using #snac and I'm really liking how well the instance has been running. Maintenance has been easy. I started on 2.90-dev and have gone through three upgrades which were all boring (aka easy).

snac is rather awesome software. It's lightweight, exceedingly fast and just works.

Thanks @The Real Grunfink (and other contributors to the project).

#snac2 #fediverse